Endymion_Mallorn

Is that supposed to be a bad thing?

Honestly, it’s almost a drop-in replacement as far as UX is concerned. The challenge is the lack of existing communities, which could be overcome if a whole community joined.

Well, I hope that Revolt/Stoat picks up most people.

I was never expecting an SC2 after Brood War, honestly. I was hoping that if Ghost succeeded, either they’d expand their 40K ripoff into other genres and let the WHFB knockoff fizzle out, or they would see that people did want games other than RTS games that are obviously GW properties with the serial numbers filed off, and maybe look back at old games like Blackthorne or The Lost Vikings. Maybe they could even have created a Rock N’ Roll Racing 2.

Instead, we got a “not-WHFB” game in the EverQuest mold and more click-wait-click games with cow levels.

Are you forgetting StarCraft:Ghost?

That’s in the desktop environment.

How about a different pattern;

• Figure out what your breakeven is - in other words, how much money you need to make to recoup salaries, licenses, and generally keep the lights on.

• Put out a free demo (and I mean free - no DRM either). See how many people download it within a month or so.

• Project the production budget for the next game.

• Price based on a 2% retention rate of the demo downloads to accommodate breakeven + next game + 5% profit for op-cap.

Rinse and repeat as necessary.

Mine is more:

$0.00: Is it FOSS, or is it on GOG? Is it DRM-free? Cool. (see: Luanti/MineTest, OpenTTD, Battle for Wesnoth, Beyond All Reason, FreeCiv, FreeOrion, Remnants of the Precursors, Endless Sky, The Ur-Quan Masters, Mindustry, Jill of the Jungle Trilogy, etc)

$0.01+ - $4.99: Is it in eXo? I’ll get it that way.

$5+: I can’t imagine buying it if there’s anything either in the FOSS category or in eXo that does the same thing.

And 99% of the time, if there isn’t, straight to torrents.

We need less “depose” and more “dispose”.

Not Punxsatawney Phil! Aside from his short rivalry with Murray over the starring role in Groundhog Day, he’s a good guy!

Lol. I wonder if this will come to anything.

Wait, you mean that when normal people spend less money, the trickle-down bullshit has to happen?

On Windows, yes. PKWare is for DOS.

The fact that it’s part of the browser at all is a problem. It shouldn’t ever be in a browser. All it should be is a tool to strictly download and render W3C compliant text and images. Everything else should be a unique program - and no, Electron is not “unique” - it’s just another copy of an awful browser.

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Here’s hoping that people care this time.

When Chrome came out, a lot of us knew that letting DoubleClick have any control over access to the Internet was a bad idea. This is another part of that.

How about they just… not include the LLM bullshit in the first place? Just make a browser that strictly renders text and images according to W3C standards?

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Ah, someone else has played Singularity, I see. That was a really fun game.